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Yesterday

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Genlook Adds More Fashion Categories to AI Try-On at No Extra Store Cost

The release broadens the items merchants can put into Genlook’s one-photo fitting flow while using existing product images. Its speed, adoption and cart-add figures remain company-reported, and sizing guidance is not yet part of the product.

19 hours ago

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Launch Products

CrowdStrike Wants AI Agents Rechecked Before Every Action

The company’s approach makes an agent’s authority temporary: access is scoped to a job and can be withdrawn when that job ends or risk conditions change.

20 hours ago

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Launch Products

Anthropic Gives Retailers Claude Agent Blueprints, With Checkout Still Off-Limits

The new guidance packages shopper recommendations and merchant decision support for a holiday-season retail push, while keeping agents from completing purchases.

Yesterday

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Launch Products

Google Adds Gemini Book Insights to iOS and Expands It Past 1 Million Ebooks

The September expansion broadens in-reader help across Google Play Books, while a separate Gemini Notebook feature turns eligible purchased titles into cited AI source material with stricter ownership rules.

Yesterday

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Launch Products

ASUS Adds RTX Spark to ProArt PCs for Local AI Work

The new creator systems center on memory capacity and local execution, while ASUS’s performance and workload figures remain company-supplied specifications.

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Earlier this week

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Launch Products

Altruist Puts Six-Part Financial Planning in Hazel, With Separate Math Programs

The new agent gives advisors a way to build and adjust comprehensive plans during client meetings. Altruist’s key design claim is that AI handles client context while separate software produces the financial figures.

Yesterday

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Launch Models

Google Adds Agentic Video Understanding to Gemini, Claiming 88% Lower Token Use

The API feature shifts Gemini from fixed-rate video sampling to targeted inspection of frames, audio and transcripts. Its value for long recordings will depend on whether Google’s reported efficiency and accuracy gains carry into production workloads.

Yesterday

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Launch Products

OneRail Says OmniStar Can Cut Delivery Routing Analysis to 2.5 Minutes

The new decision layer promises to replace slow, manual delivery choices with per-order routing. Early deployments offer a first test, while its savings and volume figures remain company projections.

Sep 1, 2026

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Launch Products

Scalable Capital Connects ChatGPT, Claude and Grok to Broker Accounts, but Trades Need Approval

The product moves AI from general investment research into a customer’s live account context. Its central control is simple: models can prepare actions, but customers must approve trades and savings plans before execution.

Aug 31, 2026

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Launch Infrastructure

Build American AI Takes Multimillion-Dollar Data-Center Ads to Three Election States

The campaign brings organized political advertising to a facilities fight that has become a flashpoint in contests for Congress and state and local government.

Aug 31, 2026

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Launch Tools

Google Updates Antigravity Teamwork, Putting Long-Running Agent Critique in Paid Preview

The update packages critique, verification and synthesis into reusable agent-team patterns. Google’s results suggest the orchestration can produce useful work, while the preview’s lower-parallelism setup and model mix limit direct comparisons with its research runs.

Aug 31, 2026

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Launch Products

Broadcom Releases AgentMinder to Check AI Agent Tool Calls at Runtime

The new control layer is designed to evaluate each requested agent action before it reaches company systems, shifting governance from static permissions toward live policy enforcement.

Aug 31, 2026

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Last week

6 stories

Launch Startups

Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Build Discovery Loop, a Science AI Startup Backed by Radical Ventures

The new public-benefit company has an unusually experienced founding team and support from both Radical Ventures and Alphabet. Its central technical question is still unanswered: what system will turn the ambition to automate research into a usable product?

Aug 30, 2026

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Launch Infrastructure

OpenRelay Routes AI Inference Across GPUs, TPUs and Trainium Through One API

The early-access network aims to let developers buy performance rather than a particular accelerator, but its cost-savings claims and ability to deliver consistent service across mixed infrastructure remain unproven.

Aug 29, 2026

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Launch Infrastructure

Nvidia Rolls Out Vera Rubin as AI Competition Shifts to Data Traffic

The architecture packages compute with storage and networking hardware, betting that efficiently moving data through large AI systems is becoming its own competitive layer.

Aug 29, 2026

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Launch Models

Cohere’s Parse 5 Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown for $1.50 per 1,000 Pages

The compact vision model is built for high-volume retrieval and document-processing pipelines, but its headline benchmark result leaves out chart and visual-grounding tests.

Aug 27, 2026

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Launch Products

Harness Launches Agent-Ready Repository and AI Review for High-Volume Code Changes

The products pair high-volume repository operations with inherited permissions and merge-time checks, but Harness still places the final decision to ship with people.

Aug 27, 2026

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Launch Models

Z.ai Says 100,000 Chinese Chips Serve GLM-5.3-Flash; Shares Rise More Than 8%

The low-cost model is a test of whether China-made hardware can support a public AI service at scale, but Z.ai has not named the chipmakers behind the system.

Aug 26, 2026

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